Lillian Asplund

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Last survivor of the Titanic disaster able to recall the night’s events

OF THE 706 people who survived the sinking of the Titanic, Lillian Asplund was the last left alive who could remember the disaster. Among the 1,523 who perished were her three brothers and her father. The sight of their faces peering down over the ship’s rail as her lifeboat descended haunted her for the rest of her life.

Carl and Selma Asplund and their five children were a middle-class family of Swedish origin who, after several years back in Sweden settling Carl’s father’s estate and caring for his elderly mother, decided to return to the life they had built in